Ryan Rowe

I have lived in nine countries and worked in more than twenty, across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This is a personal space for the photographs, writing, and work I have collected along the way.

Travel

Selected photographs

A small selection from the road, from Antarctic sea ice to the streets of Havana. Click any image to enlarge.

Writing

From the blog

Notes and reflections from travel and life.

Section coming soon. This is where selected blog posts and photo essays will go. There is older writing to draw from — say the word and I will pull a few favourites in here.

Work

Portfolio

A selection of work across international development, evaluation, and finance.

Recent consulting

Mid-term evaluation — Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Food Systems & Trade Specialist · 2025–26

Served as Food Systems and Trade Specialist on a four-person team evaluating AFSA’s “My Food Is African” (TAFS) program. The work used a mixed-methods, OECD-criteria approach with field data collection across six countries — Senegal, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Uganda. I led the bilingual English/French fieldwork and the cross-border trade analysis.

Strategic planning & fund development — Haiti WASH foundation

Strategy & fund development advisor · 2025–26

Advised a Haiti-based water, sanitation and hygiene foundation on strategy and growth. Delivered a multi-year strategic plan, a board-approved theory of change and logic model, and a medium-term fund development plan aimed at putting the organization on a sustainable revenue footing.

Compliance & go-to-market advisory — social-impact water venture

Strategy & compliance advisor · 2025–26

Advised an early-stage social-impact venture that channels digital-asset sales into clean-water initiatives. Produced a regulatory compliance analysis covering charitable solicitation, sales tax, and KYC/AML, alongside a go-to-market strategy and partnership-structuring support.

Leadership

Chief Executive Officer — HANWASH, Haiti

Haiti National Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative · 2021–2025

Led HANWASH, Haiti’s national water, sanitation and hygiene initiative, as part of a team of staff, board, donors, and partners. Built and managed national-scale programming and partnerships across Haitian government bodies, Rotary, and implementing partners, and helped design a leveraged, match-based funding model to grow donor investment.

Earlier career

Organizational development & capacity building — Cuso International

2017–2019

Supported partner organizations through structured capacity assessments and organizational development work plans within Cuso International’s programming.

WASH research & field programs — The Water Institute, UNC Chapel Hill

Rotary Peace Fellow · 2010–2015

Worked on water, sanitation and hygiene research and field programs with the Water Institute at UNC Chapel Hill, including fieldwork in Malawi. This period overlapped a Rotary Peace Fellowship (Duke–UNC, 2010–2012).

Investment banking — Macquarie Group, Abu Dhabi

2006–2010

Began my career in finance, including investment banking with Macquarie Group based in Abu Dhabi, before moving into international development.

MBA (Schulich/York) · MPH (UNC Chapel Hill) · B.Comm. Finance (Concordia) · Rotary Peace Fellow · Lived in nine countries, worked in more than twenty.

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